A lighter setup for whites and rosés you'll drink within a year. Cooler ferments, synthetic corks, less oak, more refreshment.
Whites are a different game. Cooler fermentation temperature, more aromatic care, no extended oak. Faster turnaround — you can drink these within 6 months of bottling.
This bundle assumes you're working from a kit or fresh white juice. Pick one.
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Crisp Chardonnay KitThe white that wins over people who 'don't really drink whites.'
↳ Or the fresh white juice pail
Fresh White Grape Juice Pail (6 gal)The harvest-fresh white. Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio — what's around.
↳ Alternative to the kit
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Lalvin ICV-D47 White Wine YeastThe white wine workhorse. Round mouthfeel, great with whites and rosés.
↳ Todd's white-wine default
$2Amazon
$7Amazon
Potassium Metabisulfite (Bulk K-Meta)Bulk sulfite powder for sanitizing and protecting wine from oxidation.
$14Amazon
Synthetic Wine Corks (Bag of 100)Plastic, perfect, and never tainted. Great for wines drunk inside a year.
↳ Whites don't need natural
$22Amazon
Handheld Optical RefractometerRead sugar from a single drop of juice. Way easier than the hydrometer for must.
$28Amazon
6-Gallon Glass CarboyThe big jug. Where wine lives between fermentation and bottling.
↳ Glass keeps temp stable
$48Amazon
$5Amazon
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Todd's whole house drinks more white than red, and he's optimized this list down to what actually shows up in the glass. D-47 yeast, no oak overkill, synthetic corks because they'll be empty by next summer anyway.
Heavy oak — whites don't want it. Long aging supplies — these wines drink young. Reds.
